These Are Health System Executives’ Top Concerns

By Mary Kate Nelson | April 11, 2017

Patients’ access to outpatient medical care is one of the top concerns of health care executives nationwide, according to the Annual Health Care CEO Survey from Washington, D.C.-based best practices firm Advisory Board.

For the survey, the health care business of The Advisory Board Company asked 183 C-suite hospital and health system executives their opinions on 26 different topics of concern in December 2016 and January 2017.

Executives’ top concern is improving patients’ access to care in outpatient or ambulatory locations, the survey revealed. About 57% of respondents expressed “extreme interest” in the topic.

Additionally, approximately 55% of the executives surveyed said increasing outpatient procedural market share is of “extreme interest” to them this year. Last year, boosting outpatient procedural market share was executives’ 10th-greatest concern.